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Your terminal is the most important part of your personal Operating System. You should be able to have the freedom to modify it, redistribute it, and look at the source code.
Warp Terminal is proprietary software. You cannot modify it to your needs, neither can you redistribute it.
This is a step backward in terminal emulation. Many former closed-source terminal emulators like conhost.exe have been open-sourced, yet Warp Terminal remains proprietary.
Even with the Warp Terminal team considering open sourcing parts of the code, that would still not be the full code, which makes Warp Terminal remain nonfree.
Warp Terminal is built with Electron, the worst possible framework for a terminal emulator. It is slow, it is bloated, and it is not designed for the task. There are multiple other things that Electron is actually suited for, and this is not one of them.
EDIT (May 9, 2025): I was wrong about this. Warp Terminal is built with Rust, not Electron.
Nonfree terminal emulators undermine computing freedom and shrink the pool of community-driven alternatives.
This is not a personal attack, but please stop. If you made this proprietary for profit, remember you can charge as much as you wish for free software.
- Alacritty
- Wave (similar to Warp Terminal, but open-source.)
- Windows Terminal & conhost.exe
- Kitty
- WezTerm
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